I feel so fortunate to get paid to be an actor. I pinch myself. I get it from writing, I get it from baking, gardening... I sort of open myself to the creative flow, which is hard to do, by the way.

Real life is crazier than fiction.

At our core, we just want to know that we matter.

Ultimately everyone, no matter who you are, we all at our core want to just know that we matter.

When I meditate in the morning, it really changes my day and my relationship with my day.

I think the biggest shift has been in realizing how much more we are creating our life than we realize. That was sort of the epiphany to me.

Even in the most grieving of losses, or whatever sort of pain you're sitting in, we can bear it.

Really anything can happen at any time and we are very addicted to comfort. Life is just not always comfortable.

It can be so terrifying to open yourself up to true love. That love can be with your mate, with your child, with yourself, because we are ultimately such vulnerable little creatures in this world.

Part of my journey is sort of learning the ways that I'm unconsciously blocked and trying to open them up. I'm a complete "work in progress" in that area.

It's always fun to get to do things that stretch you and that you don't get to do a lot, but you never know until you see it.

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

You are the light. Rise and shine.

What's afterlife?" Asher asked, sincerely, indicating a trio of passing shoppers laden with brightly colored bags, who turned up their noses. "There's only life.

For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.

A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.

Most of my scars are not fire-related and I no longer say "I know what I am doing" at critical moments.

Being truthful - that's what I admire the most in people. That's about it. As long as people are honest. Honest to themselves as well - more than anything else.

Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal.